{"id":32915,"date":"2014-07-18T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32915"},"modified":"2014-07-18T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:49:23","slug":"gyeeda-reforms-govt-engages-first-class-anti-forgery-technology-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/gyeeda-reforms-govt-engages-first-class-anti-forgery-technology-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"GYEEDA Reforms: Gov’t engages “first class” anti-forgery technology firm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Government<\/span> has engaged the\u00a0services of the providers of the\u00a0‘Veryfy platform’<\/a>, a software a software innovator\u00a0as part of ongoing reforms to strengthen the performance of the Ghana Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship Development Authority (GYEEDA).<\/p>\n GYEEDA thus becomes the first government agency in the world to adopt the\u00a0Veryfy<\/span> platform<\/a>, a first-in-class, integrated, anti-fraud, anti-forgery, and transparency-support software system being pioneered from its office in Accra.<\/p>\n The Agency was hit with allegations of fraud and improper award of contract to service providers following a series of investigations by Joy News, compelling the president to institute a committee to probe its activities. The committee in its report, recommended various reforms in the operations of GYEEDA.<\/p>\n “The platform shall support GYEEDA\u2019s new national zero tolerance for fraud policy, by making \u00a0accountability stronger, record-keeping<\/span> more advanced, ensuring integrity in their operations, and removing all the loopholes on<\/span> which corruption thrives,” National Coordinator of GYEEDA, Kobby Akyeampong has stated.<\/p>\n In addition to preventing document forgery, deliberate tampering and misplacement of critical documents, and misrepresentation, it shall also be useful in helping eliminate ghost-names and impersonation through its SmartID module, which enables instant electronic verification of personnel.<\/p>\n “Furthermore, chains of correspondence spanning many years into the future are now to be seamlessly tracked, traced, secured and indexed in special databases for pattern analysis to prevent fraud, graft and tender and procurement abuse.<\/p>\n